So you have your Visual Basic 2008 Express project. When you created it, you assigned some placeholder icon to serve as the project's icon. The icon shows up alongside the compiled executable in Windows Explorer, and everything's fine. Or is it?
Alex Darby writes about "the Stack", referring to both the ISO standard and Bjarne's C++ book and complains that they both evade the concept of a stack or a heap as used for laying-out objects in memory.
Struggling to get variable substitution to affect targets and dependencies in GNU Make? Here's why, and how to fix it (if you don't mind a good hack).
While writing my previous post, a question came to mind regarding the use of static members for bounding arrays that are members of the same type.
A piece of supposedly well-written multi-threaded code was giving me a headache the other day. I briefly explore a common(?) pitfall in the use of RAII-driven locking mechanisms.
And another bollocks post.
I don't think I'll be answering this one.
I was posed a question recently as to why the C++ expression true == true == true compiled successfully. The person asking was sure that equality comparison held no associativity and that the expression was thus too ambiguous to be well-formed.
Having come up against disbelievers too often now, I've decided to take matters into my own hands and definitively conclude this argument once and for all.
From the MySQL documentation on LAST_INSERT_ID() and AUTO_INCREMENT columns…
